On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:16 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:> On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 19:02:04 +0400 Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> wrote:> > > The patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/13/226 introduced an RLIMIT_NPROC> > check in set_user() to check for NPROC exceeding via setuid() and> > similar functions. Before the check there was a possibility to greatly> > exceed the allowed number of processes by an unprivileged user if the> > program relied on rlimit only. But the check created new security> > threat: many poorly written programs simply don't check setuid() return> > code and believe it cannot fail if executed with root privileges. So,> > the check is removed in this patch because of too often privilege> > escalations related to buggy programs....> > Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

It got 2 positive feedbacks and seems nobody has better solution.Is it possible to see it in 3.1?